Cities in a World Economy

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Areas of Research Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and the Internet; information exchange via CMC; online communities; e-learning; social network analysis; collaboration; social informatics; community informaticsSaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (WWNorton 2007), the edited Deciphering the Globa: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (Routledge 2007), and The Global City. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the volume on urban sustainability in the new 14-volume Encyclopedia of Life-Systems being (Oxford: EOLSS (2006), for which she coordinated a network of researchers and activists in thirty countries.

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

List of Exhibits

Place and Production in the Global Economy

The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization

The Global Economy Today

Strategic Places

Conclusion: After the Pax Americana

Notes

Appendix

National and Transnational Urban Systems

Global Patterns of Urbanization

Urbanization in Africa Today

Urbanization in Asia Today

Impacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe

Transnational Urban Systems

Global Cities and Immigration

Global Cities and Diasporic Networks

A Politics of Places on Global Circuits

Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings

Notes

Appendix

The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place

From the Keynesian City to the Global City

The Multiple Circuits of the Global Economy

The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City

The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site

The Formation of a New Production Complex

Corporate Headquarters and Cities

An Emerging Global Labor Market

Growing Segmentation in the Global Labor Market

Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites

Notes

Appendix

Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy

The Development of Global City Functions: The Case of Miami

The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto

The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney

Competition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai

Making New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf States

An Old Imperial City in Today's New East-West Geopolitics: Istanbul

Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers

Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era?

In the Digital Era: More Concentration than Dispersal

The Space Economy of Centrality

Towards Novel Spatial Formats: Global Cities and Megaregions

Notes

Appendix

The New Inequalities Within Cities

Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process

The Informal Economy

The Earnings Distribution in a Service-dominated Economy

The Restructuring of Urban Consumption

Conclusion: A Widening Gap

Notes

Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits

Women in the Global Economy

Localizing the Global

The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy

Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival

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